{"id":43,"date":"2013-04-26T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2013\/04\/26\/i-want-to-know\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T06:24:00","slug":"i-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2013\/04\/26\/i-want-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me you don&#8217;t lie awake all day thinking of exactly these:<\/p>\n<p>Where does all the dirt come from? Archaeologists keep finding bones and pots and cities under the soil. I&#8217;m afraid to sit down. <\/p>\n<p>How does my iTunes library have music I&#8217;ve never heard of?<\/p>\n<p>Why won&#8217;t voice recognition take &#8216;yes&#8217; for an answer?<\/p>\n<p>Was Del Boy based on Steve Ballmer or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n<p>How lazy do you have to be to have invented fractions in maths? Someone asks you what half of something is and you say it&#8217;s 1\/2. &#8220;Take one of it and divide it by two, that&#8217;s a half. You&#8217;re welcome.&#8221; Fractions are the maths equivalent of ikea instructions for solving a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Why do television news channels still preview tomorrow&#8217;s newspapers?<\/p>\n<p>Is it really worth strip-mining the Earth and creating a multi-billion-pound industry just so I can wrap my sandwiches in tin foil?<\/p>\n<p>When you book a coach with National Express, why doesn&#8217;t it check if there&#8217;s a seat until after it&#8217;s taken your credit card details? If there isn&#8217;t a seat, why doesn&#8217;t it tell you which part of your journey is full?<\/p>\n<p>Why are people so critical of the Conservatives when all they&#8217;ve really done wrong for the country is be in power?<\/p>\n<p>Why do online train booking websites ask if you&#8217;d also like to see prices and availability? Is it because trains are so expensive that the site is surprised you&#8217;re looking?<\/p>\n<p>Why do tea bags come in pairs?<\/p>\n<p>If a tree falls down in a forest and there&#8217;s no one to hear it, does it swear?<\/p>\n<p>In the next few days I will finish writing an enormous book, a new two-hour Doctor Who audio and a short Birmingham Rep stage play. These have occupied my life, mind and breathing totally for the year so far. What do I do now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me you don&#8217;t lie awake all day thinking of exactly these: Where does all the dirt come from? Archaeologists &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2013\/04\/26\/i-want-to-know\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}